Best Weaviate Podcasts (2024)

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Window Search Tree with Josh Engels - Weaviate Podcast #98! 58:56

22h ago58:56

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Josh Engels is a Ph.D. student at MIT who has published several works advancing the state of the art in Vector Search. Josh has recently developed the Window Search Tree, a new algorithm particularly targeted for improving Filtered Vector Search. Even more particularly than that, the WST algorithm targets Filtered Search with continuous-valued filt…

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The Future of Search with Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #97! 59:41

9d ago59:41

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Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 97th Weaviate Podcast on the state of AI-powered Search technology featuring Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas! Erika and I have been super excited about Cohere's latest works to advance RAG and Search and it was amazing getting to pick Nils' brain about all these topics! We began with the development o…

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Deep Learning with Letitia Parcalabescu - Weaviate Podcast #96! 1:35:18

15d ago1:35:18

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 96th episode of the Weaviate podcast featuring Letitia Parcalabescu! While completing her Ph.D. studies at the University of Heidelberg, Letitia started her YouTube channel: AI Coffee Break with Letitia! Her videos break down complex concepts in AI with a creative mix of technical expertise and visua…

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Google Cloud Marketplace with Dai Vu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #95! 41:28

2M ago41:28

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Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 95th Weaviate Podcast! We are beyond honored to feature Dai Vu from Google on this one, alongside Weaviate Co-Founder Bob van Luijt! This podcast dives into all things Google Cloud Marketplace and the state of AI. Beginning with the proliferation of Open-Source models and how Dai sees the evolving la…

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ParlayANN with Magdalen Dobson Manohar 1:03:57

2M ago1:03:57

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As you are graduating from ideas to engineering, one of the key concepts to be aware of is Parallel Computing and Concurrency. I am SUPER excited to share our 94th Weaviate podcast with Magdalen Dobson Manohar! Magdalen is one of the most impressive scientists I have ever met, having completed her undergraduate studies at MIT before joining Carnegi…

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RAGKit with Kyle Davis - Weaviate Podcast #93! 1:27:03

2M ago1:27:03

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Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our newest Weaviate podcast with Kyle Davis, the creator of RAGKit! At a high-level, the podcast covers our understanding of RAG systems through 4 key areas: (1) Ingest / ETL, (2) Search, (3) Generate / Agents, and (4) Evaluation. Discussing these lead to all sorts of topics from Knowledge Graph RAG, to F…

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VetRec with David de Matheu - Weaviate Podcast #92! 59:47

3M ago59:47

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I've seen a lot of interest around RAG for X application domain, Legal, Accounting, Healthcare, .... David and Kevin are maybe the best example of this I have seen so far, pivoting from Neum AI to VetRec! We begin the podcast by discussing the decision to switch gears, the advice given by Y Combinator, and David's experience in learning a new appli…

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The story of AI in the Park: Charm CEO, Izu Elechi 44:24

3M ago44:24

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In this episode of the Accelerometer, Matt interviews Izu Elechi, the founder of Charm, who shares fascinating insights about his journey - from discovering the power of variables in middle school to his belief that the wave of true AI-native companies is yet to come. Youtube episode Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Disco…

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Tengyu Ma on Voyage AI - Weaviate Podcast #91! 1:02:59

3M ago1:02:59

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Voyage AI is the newest giant in the embedding, reranking, and search model game! I am SUPER excited to publish our latest Weaviate podcast with Tengyu Ma, Co-Founder of Voyage AI and Assistant Professor at Stanford University! We began the podcast with a deep dive into everything embedding model training and contrastive learning theory. Tengyu del…

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How we got 12,000 users building AI: Max Rumpf, CEO SID (YC) 33:28

3M ago33:28

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This episode of Accelerometer, we talk to an eclectic Max Rumpf from Sid.AI as he discussed his latest startup successes, insane stories from San Francisco and the perks of being a Y Combinator-backed startup. YouTube episode Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarchy LLM-VM Anarchy Twitter Anarchy LinkedIn Matthew …

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Shrinking LLMs: Kyle Corbitt, CEO OpenPipe (YC) 29:25

3M ago29:25

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In this episode, Dr Matthew Mirman speaks to the co-founder of OpenPipe, Kyle Corbitt. YouTube Video Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarchy LLM-VM Anarchy Twitter Anarchy LinkedIn Matthew Mirman LinkedIn

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Self-Discover DSPy with Chris Dossman - Weaviate Podcast #90! 1:02:57

4M ago1:02:57

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One of the core values of DSPy is the ability to add “reasoning modules” such as Chain-of-Thought to your LLM programs! For example, Chain-of-Thought describes prompting the LLM with “Let’s think step by step …”. Interestingly, this meta-prompt around asking the LLM to think this way dramatically improves performance in tasks like question answerin…

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Navigating Vector Space with Weaviate CEO Bob van Luijt 1:21:08

4M ago1:21:08

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VectIn this episode we explore the future of vector databases and and machine learning advancements with Bob van Luijt the CEO of Weaviate. Youtube video Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarchy LLM-VM Anarchy Twitter Anarchy LinkedIn Matthew Mirman LinkedInBy Matthew Mirman

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Matryoshka Embeddings with Aditya Kusupati, Zach Nussbaum, and Zain Hasan - Weaviate Podcast #89! 1:12:14

4M ago1:12:14

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 89th Weaviate Podcast on Matryoshka Representation Learning! I am beyond grateful to be joined by the lead author of Matryoshka Representation Learning, Aditya Kusupati, Zach Nussbaum, a Machine Learning Engineer at Nomic AI bringing these embeddings to production, and my Weaviate colleague, Zain Has…

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Instructor with Jason Liu - Weaviate Podcast #88! 55:30

4M ago55:30

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Jason Liu is the creator of Instructor, one of the world's leading LLM frameworks, particularly focused on structured output parsing with LLMs, or as Jason puts it "making LLMs more backwards compatible". It is hard to understand the impact of Instructor, this is truly leading us to the next era of LLM programming. It was such an honor chatting wit…

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AI in Podcasting: Snipd's CEO Kevin Smith 37:33

4M ago37:33

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In this episode we explore the serial entrepreneur journey with Kevin Smith, cofounder of Snipd. Youtube Video Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarchy LLM-VM Anarchy Twitter Anarchy LinkedIn Matthew Mirman LinkedInBy Matthew Mirman

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AI-Driven Finance with JustPaid's Daniel Kivatinos 44:28

5M ago44:28

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In this episode we explore the serial entrepreneur journey with Daniel Kivatinos, CEO of JustPaid.io Youtube Episode Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarchy LLM-VM Anarchy Twitter Anarchy LinkedIn Matthew Mirman LinkedInBy Matthew Mirman

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XMC.dspy with Karel D'Oosterlinck - Weaviate Podcast #87! 1:08:53

5M ago1:08:53

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 87th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Karel D'Oosterlinck! Karel is the creator of IReRa (Infer-Retrieve-Rank)! IReRa is one of the most impressive systems that have been built for Extreme Multi-Label Classification, leveraging the emerging paradigm of DSPy compilation! …

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Patent Pioneering and AI Integration with Evan Zimmerman 33:07

5M ago33:07

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In this episode we explore how AI can be used to speed up the Patent process with Evan Zimmerman, the CEO of Edge. Edge LinkedIn Episode on Youtube Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarchy LLM-VM Anarchy Twitter Anarchy LinkedIn Matthew Mirman LinkedInBy Matthew Mirman

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Open-Source AI with Vinod Valloppillil and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #86! 55:04

5M ago55:04

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Hey everyone! We are super excited to publish this podcast with Vinod Valloppillil and Bob van Luijt on Open-Source AI and future directions for RAG! The podcast begins by discussing Vinod's "Halloween Documents", a series of internal strategy writings at Microsoft related to the open-source software movement! The conversation continues to discuss …

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DSPy and ColBERT with Omar Khattab! - Weaviate Podcast #85 31:25

5M ago31:25

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Hey everyone! I am beyond excited to present our interview with Omar Khattab from Stanford University! Omar is one of the world's leading scientists on AI and NLP. I highly recommend you check out Omar's remarkable list of publications linked below! This interview completely transformed my understanding of building RAG and LLM applications! I belie…

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Revolutionizing Consultancy: Cyqiq with Tino 33:47

6M ago33:47

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Discover the revolutionary tool that's changing the game for management consultants everywhere! Tino, the mastermind behind Cyqiq, joins us to share his story of creating a product that automates the tedious work of data analysis, allowing consultants to shine where they do best—solving complex problems. With a beginning rooted in Zurich ideation s…

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1000 Contributors: Unify (YC W23) CEO Daniel Lenton 54:56

6M ago54:56

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Join us for an enlightening conversation between Dr. Matthew Mirman, CEO and founder of Anarchy, and Daniel Lenton, CEO and founder of Unify (YC W23), on our latest episode of the Accelerometer. Dive into the world of AI, open-source development, and the future of technology as these industry leaders share their insights and experiences. Full Episo…

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Solving AI Uncertainty with NYU Professor Andrew Wilson 37:28

6M ago37:28

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Unlock the mysteries of AI's decision-making process with Professor Andrew Wilson of NYU in a discussion on Bayesian deep learning. We dive into how AI grapples with uncertainty, differentiating between the types we can predict and those we can't, and why this matters for crafting dependable AI forecasts. Professor Wilson, a leading mind in machine…

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Subjectivity in AI with Dan Shipper: AI-Native Databases #4 42:26

6M ago42:26

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the fourth and final episode of the AI-Native Database series with Dan Shipper! This was another epic one! Dan has had an absolutely remarkable career creating and selling a company and now co-founding and working as the CEO of Every! Every is an incredibly future-looking business focused on content onli…

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Humans and AI with John Maeda: AI-Native Databases #3 40:06

6M ago40:06

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 3rd episode of the AI-Native Database series featuring John Maeda and Bob van Luijt! This one dives into how humans perceive AI, from Anthroaormorphization to Doomsday scenario thinking and how important understanding how AI actually work is to the engineering of these systems. Bob and John discuss t…

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Secrets of LLMOps with Noa Flaherty, CTO Vellum (YC W23) 37:26

6M ago37:26

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Discover the frontier of AI innovation as Noa Flaherty from Vellum joins us to unravel the complexities of Large Language Model Operations (LLM Ops), an exciting convergence of engineering and business strategy shaping the future of enterprise AI solutions. Episode on Youtube Accelerometer Podcast Accelerometer Youtube Anarchy Anarchy Discord Anarc…

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Structure in Data with Paul Groth: AI-Native Databases #2 45:15

6M ago45:15

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the second episode of AI-Native Databases with Paul Groth! This was another epic one, diving deep into the role of structure in our data! Beginning with Knowledge Graphs and LLMs, there are two perspectives: LLMs for Knowledge Graphs (using LLMs to extract relationships or predict missing links) and then…

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Self-Driving Databases with Andy Pavlo: AI-Native Databases #1 1:14:32

6M ago1:14:32

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the first episode of AI-Native Databases with Andy Pavlo! This was an epic one! We began by explaining the "Self-Driving Database" and all the opportunities to optimize DBs with AI and ML at both the low-level, as well as how we query and interact with them. We also discussed new opportunities with DBs +…

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Pivoting back to Ambient AI with Gabe Villasana, CTO @ Zenfetch (YC W23) 33:08

6M ago33:08

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Have you ever wondered how technology can leverage our past to improve our future? We promise to unlock this mystery in our gripping conversation with Gabe from Zenfetch (YC W23). Gabe introduces us to Zenfetch, a groundbreaking tool for writers and knowledge workers that builds mental associations between past and present content. This intriguing …

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Weaviate 1.23 Release Podcast with Etienne Dilocker! 55:07

6M ago55:07

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the Weaviate 1.23 Release Podcast with Weaviate Co-Founder and CTO Etienne Dilocker! Weaviate 1.23 is a massive step forward for managing multi-tenancy with vector databases. For most RAG and Vector DB applications, you will have an uneven distribution in the # of vectors per user. Some users have 10k do…

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Open-Source Robotics with 2x YC Founder James Steinberg 18:27

6M ago18:27

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Ready to unravel the intriguing world of open-source robotics? Tune in as we navigate this fascinating sphere with our guest, James Steinberg, a YC alumni and an innovator making strides in this field with his new company, OpenShelf. James takes us on a captivating journey, sharing his experiences of running a hardware company and discussing the ch…

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How to survive the EU AI Act with Modulos' CEO, Kevin Schawinski 30:00

7M ago30:00

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We're excited to bring you an episode that's brimming with insights from the brilliant Kevin Schawinski, founder and CEO of Modulos AG, who joins us to talk all things AI regulation and how he got there from his former work as a physics professor. Our conversation takes a deep dive into the EU AI Act, its impact on AI practitioners and data scienti…

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Redefining Finance: The Truewind Journey 37:02

7M ago37:02

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Buckle up for an exhilarating ride as we traverse the cutting edge intersection of finance and artificial intelligence with Truewind, a startup making waves in the financial sector. We're joined by their founder, who offers a behind-the-scenes look at how they leverage AI and LLMs to revolutionize bookkeeping, delivering timely and accurate results…

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Will your AI friends kill you? w/ Kevin Baragona of DeepAI.org 36:06

7M ago36:06

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Could you find yourself falling head over heels for a robot? Prepare for a mind-bending conversation with Kevin Baragona, founder of deepai.com, as we explore the thrilling and sometimes unsettling frontier of AI companionship. We examine the rapid rise of AI companions, ponder whether robots could become indistinguishable from humans, and grapple …

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How to be the best ai-powered presenter with Showzone's CPO, Nicolas Zanotti 30:51

7M ago30:51

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Ever wondered how AI can revolutionize the world of presentations? Join us in this exciting episode as we unravel the story behind Showzone, an innovative startup leveraging AI for effective presentations. Our esteemed guest, Nicolas Zanotti, the founder of Showzone, walks us through his journey from ideation to product development. You'll learn ho…

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Startups with Island Vibes: Venmo Founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail's Ways 39:40

7M ago39:40

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Have you ever been so engrossed in a project that it keeps you up at night? For our special guest, Iqram, it was the exhilarating journey at Venmo, the popular payment app. In a true testament of endurance, Iqram reveals how Venmo underwent a drastic transitionary phase through two heart-stopping acquisitions. He fondly recalls the family-like atmo…

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Rudy Lai on Tactic Generate - Weaviate Podcast #78! 56:09

7M ago56:09

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 78th episode of the Weaviate podcast featuring Rudy Lai, the founder and CEO of Tactic Generate! Tactic Generate has developed a user experience around applying LLMs in parallel to multiple documents, or even folders / collections / databases. Rudy discussed the user research that lead the company to…

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Cognitive Engineering w/ OpenSoul's Kevin Fisher 28:59

7M ago28:59

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Picture the future - a world where artificial intelligence (AI) holds as much agency as humans, potentially redefining our very concept of humanity. We sit down with Kevin Fisher, the brain behind the groundbreaking OpenSouls project, to discuss this unique vision of the future. Kevin, a quantum physicist turned AI visionary, shares his philosophie…

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RAGAS with Jithin James, Shahul Es, and Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #77! 49:59

7M ago49:59

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Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 77th Weaviate Podcast on RAGAS, featuring Jithin James, Shahul ES, and Erika Cardenas! RAGAS is one of the hottest rising startups in Retrieval-Augmented Generation! RAGAS began it's journey with the RAGAS score, a matrix of evaluations for generation and retrieval. Generation evaluated on Faithfulne…

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Patrick Lewis on Retrieval-Augmented Generation - Weaviate Podcast #76! 58:58

7M ago58:58

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Hey everyone, I am SUPER excited to present our 76th Weaviate Podcast featuring Patrick Lewis, an NLP Research Scientist at Cohere! Patrick has had an absolutely massive impact on Natural Language Processing with AI and Deep Learning! Especially notable for the current climate in AI and Weaviate is that Patrick is the lead author of the original "R…

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Tanmay Chopra on Emissary - Weaviate Podcast #75! 50:18

8M ago50:18

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 75th Weaviate Podcast featuring Tanmay Chopra! The podcast details Tanmay's incredible career in Machine Learning from Tik Tok to Neeva and now building his own startup, Emissary! Tanmay shared some amazing insights into Search AI such as how to process Temporal Queries, how to think about diversity …

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Simba Khadder on FeatureForm - Weaviate Podcast #74! 56:42

8M ago56:42

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 74th Weaviate Podcast feature Simba Khadder, the CEO and Co-Founder of FeatureForm! To begin, "features" broadly describe the inputs to machine learning models that they use to produce outputs, or predictions. Feature stores orchestrate the construction of features, whether that be transformations fo…

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Charles Packer on MemGPT - Weaviate Podcast #73! 51:30

8M ago51:30

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Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 73rd Weaviate Podcast with Charles Packer, the lead author of MemGPT at UC Berkeley! MemGPT presents the "Operating System for LLMs", an incredibly exciting idea to explicitly prompt the LLM with the information that it has a limited context window and give it memory management tools to behave accordi…

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Madelon Hulsebos on Tabular Machine Learning - Weaviate Podcast #72! 49:39

8M ago49:39

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 72nd episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Madelon Hulsebos!! Madelon is one of the world's experts on Machine Learning with Tables and Tabular-Structured Data, this was such an eye-opening conversation! We discussed all sorts of topics from the relationship of tabular data and embeddings, to searchin…

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Vibs Abhishek on Alltius AI - Weaviate Podcast #71! 55:37

8M ago55:37

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 71st Weaviate Podcast with Vibs Abhishek! Vibs is the CEO and Founder of Alltius AI, as well as a professor at UC Irvine business school! In order to tame the somewhat chaotic emerging landscape of RAG and LLM applications, Alltius has settled on 3 core pillars of Knowledge, Skills, and Deployment Ch…

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MemGPT Explained! 30:59

8M ago30:59

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Thank you so much for watching our paper summary video on MemGPT! MemGPT is a super exciting new work bridging together concepts in how Operating Systems manage memory and LLMs! Links:Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08560.pdfAndrej Karpathy on Operating Systems and LLMs: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1707437820045062561Run LLM Podcast with …

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Kevin Cohen on Neum AI - Weaviate Podcast #70! 55:02

8M ago55:02

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 70th episode of the Weaviate podcast with Neum AI CTO and Co-Founder Kevin Cohen! I first met Kevin when he was debugging an issue with his distributed node utilization and have since learned so much from him about how he sees the space of Data Ingestion, also commonly referenced as ETL for LLMs! The…

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Charles Pierse on Tactic Generate - Weaviate Podcast #69! 1:08:47

9M ago1:08:47

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 69th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Charles Pierse from Tactic! Tactic has recently launched their new Tactic Generate project, an incredible UI for conducting research across multiple documents. I think there is a massive opportunity to pair these prompts and LLM workflows with User Inter…

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Weights and Biases on Fine-Tuning LLMs - Weaviate Podcast #68! 52:09

9M ago52:09

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 68th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! We are super excited to welcome Morgan McGuire, Darek Kleczek, and Thomas Capelle! This was such a fun discussion beginning with generally how see the space of fine-tuning from why you would want to do it, to the available tooling, intersection with RAG and more!…

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